Saheeh Seerah Al Albaanee English

Also in Ṣaḥeeḥ Muslim from the Ḥadeeth of Anas ‏:رضيُاهللُعنه A person said: O Messenger
of Allaah! Where is my father? He ﷺ said: ❝(He) is in the Fire.❞ When he turned
away, he ﷺ called him and said: ❝Verily my father and your father are in the Fire.
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well-structured inside a dome, then it is impossible that it would remind one of the Hereafter. The example of this
is the world famous structure – The Taj Mahal, which is actually a Maqbarah (gravesite) of the wife of the Moghul
king. People all over the world come to it to visit it, not because it reminds them of death or the Hereafter, but
only to admire the beauty of its structure and as sightseeing. But from this Ummah, there are those who have
opposed the teachings of the Prophet ﷺ and took the graves as places of worship. So we have the Ajmerees,
Tijaanees, Disookees, Jilaanees among the many grave worshipers. May Allaah save us and our children from ever
falling into Shirk.]
‏,رضي ‏ُاهلل ‏ُعنه 35 Ṣaḥeeḥ Muslim (203) and there is another narration from the Ḥadeeth of Sa`d Ibn Abee Waqqaaṣ
which will be mentioned later.
(Shaikh al-Albaanee said): Know that this Ḥadeeth, even though it is Ṣaḥeeḥ by itself, further has a lot of
supporting chains, and the scholars known for their Ḥadeeth criticism (i.e. those who scrutinize a chain of
narration to check its authenticity) have met it with acceptance. But Shaikh Abu Zahrah had boldly refuted it upon
(1/132): ”] ُ النبيني “ book ignorance and went into extremes. He said [in his
“It is a strange narration in its meaning like it is strange in its chain; because Allaah تعاىل said:
خامت
‏﴿وَمَاُك نَّاُم عَذِّبِنيَُُحَّتَّىُُنَب عَثَُُرَس وّل ُ﴾
{And We never punish until We have sent a Messenger (to give warning)} [Surah al-Israa’ (17): 15]
The father of (Prophet) Muḥammad ﷺ and his mother (died) in al-Fatrah (the period prior to Islaam - those
who received no message or messenger); so how can they be punished?... and in reality, I found it hard to
imagine that Abdullaah and Aaminah will be entering the Fire!”
I (al-Albaanee) say: Sub-ḥaan Allaah! Is this the stance of the one who believes in the Messenger of Allaah firstly;
and secondly in the sincere and truthful scholars (of this Ummah), those who narrated these Aḥaadeeth for us,
and safeguarded them for us, and segregated the authentic from the weak for us, and unanimously agreed that
this Ḥadeeth is authentically established from the Prophet ‏!?ﷺ Is not this stance of Abu Zahrah from the ways
of the people of desires – like the Mu`tazilah and other than them – those who would praise and criticize
according to their intellects; the ones who were heavily refuted by Ahl al-Sunnah (wal-Jamaa`ah)?
The Shaikh (Abu Zahrah) claims that he is from them (Ahl al-Sunnah), then what is the matter that he had
opposed them and chose the path of the Mu`tazilah of using the intellect as a means of judging (the Text); and
their method of rejecting authentic Aḥaadeeth because it goes against their desires – either rejecting the Ḥadeeth
completely, or misinterpreting (or distorting the meaning) if they are not able to reject it outright?! This is what
the Shaikh (Abu Zahrah) has done, he rejected this Ḥadeeth assuming that it is a strange narration. And he
misinterpreted the Aḥaadeeth of (the Prophet’s) visit (to his mother’s grave) by saying: “Perhaps the Prophet
was denied permission to seek forgiveness (for his mother) because there was no need for him to do so, as ﷺ
no Prophet was sent to address her.”
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